User blog comment:Dante-Must-Die-Mode/What The Heaven And Hell?: Chronological Order./@comment-967403-20150328020931/@comment-7738747-20150328085259

We never knew who was, but we can and we should to assume it is Dante, not only because of the promise he would come back as his father did, as only Dante is meaninful tp Lucia.DMC2 was Lucia's story, any other character would be intrusive.